Another person who never used the belt here. We have two changing pads, one downstairs on an end table in our living room that is at perfect changing height, and the other upstairs on a combination dresser/changing table in her room. We’re both very tall and we have hardwood floors, so I’m not at all interested in getting down on my hands and knees on the floor to change her. I’ll use the changing table until she stops letting me.
Same here. You can see my baby room with the amby swing bed and the drawers and changing pad on this youtube clip. I used a prefab Ikea drawer set, and my dad made raised sides so we could make good use of the ca 15 inches left between the drawer chest and the wall. I didn’t have much room in the baby’s room because I put a fold out bed there, in case one of us needed to sleep with the baby (or breastfeed laying down) without waking the other. But I didn’t want to change the baby on that bed, as it has a bad height for my back.
I closed off the changing table with a little curtain, tunneled and lined on top and bottom with those metal springy wires. Those give way to my wrists when I’m handling the baby, but they act as a safety net in that unavoidable instant when you don’t have your hand on the baby and she chooses that moment to throw herself off the table.
I was very glad to have labelled all drawers. Not only made it changign easier for sitters and my husband, but it also installed order. If you dont’ have order, baby’s diapers, clothes and all other stuff ends up in chaos-in-a-drawer.
We had a foam rubber pad covered with fabric that was removable in case of an accident. We laid it on top of my student desk and used that as a changing station…lots of drawers for diapers and clothes. We’d lay the baby on top of a small cloth-covered rubber pad on top of the foam pad, and never, ever walk away. We didn’t use baby wipes, so our routine was to scoop up the baby in question, walk first into the bathroom across the hall and fill the small blue plastic tub that used to hold bath powder with warm water and grab a baby washcloth and plop it in the water. Walk across the hall to baby’s room, lay baby on the desk, dismantle baby and wring out washcloth and clean baby up. Use a spare diaper to pat dry before pinning on a new diaper (why, yes, we used cloth diapers and pins! Loved diaper service!) and rubber pants, reassemble baby and then toss baby back over shoulder, take blue tub and washcloth back to bathroom and dump out, rinse washcloth as needed and start from scratch.